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digdugat1: MAME ROM Information.

The Atari upright Dig Dug machine came in the same cabinet as several other Atari titles (such as "Kangaroo" and "Centipede"). The machine was decorated mostly with cartoon graphics showing scenes from the game, superimposed over a yellow background.

There was also a cocktail version. It had 2 control panels (one on each end). Each panel had a 'Pump' button on either side of the joystick, so left handed players can play equally well. This model used a 13inch monitor (as opposed to the standard 19inch in the upright), and the game image flipped for each players turn. The top glass is decorated with some cutesy pictures of Fygar, Pooka and Dig Dug.

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Released by Atari in May 1982. Manufactured by Atari under lisence from Namco. Approximately 12,200 units were produced by Atari. For more information about the game itself, please see the original Namco entry.

Dig Dug was NOT the first game that Atari licensed from Namco, as is common belief. That honor goes to F-1, the '3-D' racing game that projected a race track on a screen using a rolling film. Hardly anybody in Atari coin-op liked Dig Dug except for Brian McGhie (who later joined Starpath) and Owen Rubin. It was McGhie who added the finishing touches to Dig Dug. Rubin still owns an upright prototype cabinet of Dig Dug with hand-drawn artwork, and still considers it one of his favorite games of all time.

The background graphics are slightly different in these Atari versions, the earth is less regular than the Namco versions

Former Atari game designer Owen Rubin owns an upright prototype of Dig Dug with hand-drawn art. The ROMs in his prototype are the actual production ROMs.

- 0.26: Aaron Giles added support for Dig Dug (Namco 1982) and Dig Dug (Atari). Game is playable with accurate colors and sound. Control: Arrows = Move around and CTRL = Pump. Known issues: The Atari version has some glitches on sprites/chars.